{"id":1773,"date":"2025-08-05T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myplain.com\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:21:21","slug":"the-dog-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"The dog days of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little curious about the English idiom &#8220;dog days of summer&#8221;. I know it means \u4e09\u4f0f\u5929 in Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese character &#8220;\u4f0f&#8221; has a human on the left and a dog on the right, indicating that dogs can protect humans. This is the original meaning of the \u4f0f period.<\/p>\n<p>So, is it a coincidence between the English idiom and the Chinese idiom? Or it is a translation from Chinese, which dates back approximately 2700 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little curious about the English idiom &#038;#82 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myplain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}